Common Misconceptions

[Bowens]

Just making a thread for people to post common misconceptions this morning because I’m bored.

My post will be a about something I learned recently. Its about possums. Or more correctly Opossums.

I recently learned that what most people in the U.S. refer to as a possum, is in fact an opossum. I thought they were the same thing, but no.

The opposum is on the left and the possum is on the right. Two completely diferent animals found in completely different parts of the world.

I know I’m not the only one who did not know this, though, because we used to have "smokes possum posting " threads (or hannahbanana’s at one point, I think) and similar threads. Almost everyone in those threads posted pictures of opossums as possums.

Anywho…this is a thread for similar misconceptions.

[Jonathan2]

Belgium is not the capital of Brussels.

But Brussels is the capital of Belgium.

[Jonnybegood]

My sister used to pass the myths off as true

She said things

Like daddy long legs cant bite cuz their mouths are so small but they have deadlier venom than a black widow.

Like a penny dropped off the empire state building can kill you

Maybe lotsa ppl believed those things back then, im not sure, but theyre not true

[el_Jimbobbio]

Very few antibiotics require you to abstain from alcohol. The whole ‘don’t drink on antibiotics’ has its origins in the navy.

Sailors on shore leave would catch sti’s.

The ships doctor would treat them with antibiotics.

but to prevent these sailors from getting drunk and going straight to a brothel the same day (and spreading the vd before the antibiotics had a chance to clear it) the doctor would say you can’t drink on antibiotics.

This sounds outlandish but I assure you it is fact

[DragonStorm]

I am a dragon Autobot not a real dragon…{Except when I’m smoking Cigarettes then I might be considered a chimney.}

[jukebox]

@el_Jimbobbio my dad was a doctor and he said you couldn’t drink on the antibiotics because you pee out all the meds.